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| Title: | | Financial professionals' overconfidence: Is it experience, job, or attitude?  |
| Authors: | | Gloede, Oliver Menkhoff, Lukas |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // School of Economics and Management of the Hanover Leibniz University 428 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines financial professionals' overconfidence in their forecasting performance. We are the first to compare individual financial professionals' self-ratings with their true forecasting performance. Data spans several years at monthly frequency. The forecasters in our sample do not provide feasible self-ratings compared to their true performance but show overconfidence on average. In analyzing this, we find an easing relation to experience. Job characteristics are also related to less overconfidence, such as being a fund manager and using fundamental analysis. The same effect is found for the attitude to herd, whereas recent forecasting success comes along with more overconfidence. |
| Subjects: | | overconfidence self-rating forecasting foreign exchange better-thanaverage experience performance |
| JEL: | | G1 D84 F31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Diskussionspapiere, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover
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